Spellbound

On Saturday April 10th 2010, shops and restaurants along historic Wall Street in downtown Asheville will band together to support Helpmate, our local domestic violence agency. Participating businesses, including Early Girl Eatery, Spellbound Children’s Bookshop, Purl’s Yarn Emporium, The Market Place Restaurant, Beads and Beyond, Fired Up! Creative Lounge, and others will donate a percentage of sales for the day to fund Helpmate’s programs.
 
The April 10th event, dubbed emPower Shopping, is a fun, easy way for all of us to help raise awareness about domestic violence and raise funds for a vital community resource by doing something many of us would be doing on a Saturday anyway: eating and shopping! If you’re meeting a friend for lunch, having a day out with the kids, a date night, or looking for gifts for yourself or others, just head to Wall Street on Saturday April 10th and have a great time supporting Helpmate in its work to eliminate abuse and fear in our community.

A list of participating businesses and information about Helpmate are on the event website at www.emPowerShopping.org.
 
 
About Helpmate

In addition to a safe and confidential shelter for women and children who are leaving dangerous and potentially lethal living situations, Helpmate also provides a 24-hour Hot Line, Individual and Group Counseling, Court Advocacy Programs, and Preventative Education for professionals, community leaders, and groups considered at risk of being abused. All services are free and confidential. More information can be found at www.helpmateonline.org.

Author Joseph D’Agnese will be reading and signing Blockhead at Spellbound on Saturday, April 10th at 3:00. If you can’t make it to the event, you can still order signed copies by calling us at 828-232-2228 or clicking below. There will also be a fun, free presentation illustrating Fibonacci’s work predicting patterns in nature. Great for elementary age students (and teachers)!

Blockhead: The Life of Fibonacci
by Joseph D’Agnese, ill by John O’Brien,Jr.
suggested for ages 6 to 9
$16.99
Available March 30 2010

Pre-order here:

As a young boy in medieval Italy, Leonardo Fibonacci thought about numbers day and night. He was such a daydreamer that people called him a blockhead. When Leonardo grew up, he realized that many things in nature, from the number of petals on a flower to the spiral of a nautilus shell, seem to follow a certain pattern. He had discovered what came to be known as the Fibonacci sequence!

“D’Agnese’s introduction to medieval Europe’s greatest mathematician offers both a coherent biographical account—spun, with some invented details, from very sketchy historical records—and the clearest explanation to date for younger readers of the numerical sequence that is found throughout nature and still bears his name.”—Booklist